Life After Death - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/life-after-death/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Wed, 06 May 2026 11:09:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Transcend the Ego: Die to the Self and Live for Eternity https://bahaiteachings.org/transcend-the-ego-die-to-the-self-and-live-for-eternity/ https://bahaiteachings.org/transcend-the-ego-die-to-the-self-and-live-for-eternity/#comments Sat, 16 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=86161 Consider, for a few moments, this mystical and yet practical gem of venerable advice: “If you die before you die, then you won’t die when you die.” That’s the timeworn...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/transcend-the-ego-die-to-the-self-and-live-for-eternity/feed/ 4 Dispelling Our Vain Imaginations About Death https://bahaiteachings.org/dispelling-vain-imaginations-about-death/ https://bahaiteachings.org/dispelling-vain-imaginations-about-death/#comments Sun, 03 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=83393 The Baha’i teachings caution us against fabricating false imaginations of our Creator — and also warn us about visualizing false imaginations of death.  In the Baha’i view, a spiritual existence...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/dispelling-vain-imaginations-about-death/feed/ 5 A Legendary Scientist Asks: Do We Survive Death? https://bahaiteachings.org/legendary-scientist-asks-do-we-survive-death/ https://bahaiteachings.org/legendary-scientist-asks-do-we-survive-death/#comments Sat, 02 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=83595 A Legendary Scientist Asks: Do We Survive Death?How do the world’s most renowned scientists and theorists regard the spiritual realm? Can science and spirituality, so long at odds, find common ground? Can a scientist believe in the...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/legendary-scientist-asks-do-we-survive-death/feed/ 3 The Hidden Nature of Life After Death https://bahaiteachings.org/hidden-nature-life-after-death/ https://bahaiteachings.org/hidden-nature-life-after-death/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52296 We can only understand the afterlife by analogy – because we can’t describe the soul in absolute terms like the physical phenomena of this world, or explain it in conditional...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/hidden-nature-life-after-death/feed/ 5 How Do We Feel Safe in a Dangerously Disordered World? https://bahaiteachings.org/how-do-we-feel-safe-in-a-dangerously-disordered-world/ https://bahaiteachings.org/how-do-we-feel-safe-in-a-dangerously-disordered-world/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84364 How Do We Feel Safe in a Dangerously Disordered World?If you keep up with the news today, you undoubtedly know of the extraordinary perils of our time, from wars and rumors of wars to the deepening divisions and decline...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/how-do-we-feel-safe-in-a-dangerously-disordered-world/feed/ 3 How the Beauty of This World Helps Us Understand the Next https://bahaiteachings.org/how-the-beauty-of-this-world-helps-us-understand-the-next/ https://bahaiteachings.org/how-the-beauty-of-this-world-helps-us-understand-the-next/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=70788 The Baha’i writings explain that each of us has a soul associated with the physical body, and that this soul lives on after our passing. But what wonders await us...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/how-die-without-fear-positive-death-movement/feed/ 1 The Ineffable Nature of Dying https://bahaiteachings.org/ineffable-nature-dying/ https://bahaiteachings.org/ineffable-nature-dying/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=41572 Ineffable-Nature-DyingHave you ever had an ineffable experience—one you simply couldn’t describe in words? In the accounts of the subjects who had near-death experiences in Raymond Moody’s study, particularly in the...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/ineffable-nature-dying/feed/ 4 Can We Communicate with Our Loved Ones Who Have Passed On? https://bahaiteachings.org/can-we-communicate-with-our-loved-ones-who-have-passed-on/ https://bahaiteachings.org/can-we-communicate-with-our-loved-ones-who-have-passed-on/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=53080 Between this world of existence and the next realm, a veil exists. Can we penetrate it? When we sleep, we don’t leave our bodies, but we most certainly enter into...

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